Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2000, 12:58 AM CST for Collingsworth County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 2000, 12:58 AM CST (06:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 1:30 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Collingsworth County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 1:10 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Quail, TX | |
| Feb 25, 1:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Quail, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
337 WUUS54 KAMA 250658 SVRAMA TXC087-250730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1258 AM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE * UNTIL 130 AM CST * AT 1258 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER QUAIL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WELLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... SAMNORWOOD...QUAIL AND LUTIE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 24, 11:23 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 11:23 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1123 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 WILL ISSUE UPDATE FOR ZONES SHORTLY AS SVR WW HAS EXPIRED AND SHRA/TSRA THAT ARE EXITING ERN PNHDLS...BUT WILL KEEP 30 POPS IN ERN ROW OF COUNTIES. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. JH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 24, 11:53 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
1153 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0642 PM 5 N MIAMI TX TORNADO
02/24/00 ROBERTS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0704 PM 1 N HOOVER TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 GRAY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0713 PM LIPSCOMB TX 1 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 LIPSCOMB REPORTED BY HIGGINS F.
D.
0730 PM 10 NW MIAMI TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 ROBERTS REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0736 PM 9 N LIPSCOMB TX .75 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 LIPSCOMB LIPSCOMB CO. SO.
0746 PM 2 S LIPSCOMB TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 LIPSCOMB REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTERS.
0756 PM 12 E LIPSCOMB TX TORNADO
02/24/00 LIPSCOMB REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0807 PM 9 E WHEELER TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 WHEELER WHEELER CO. S.O.
0807 PM 1 S SLAPOUT OK .88 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 BEAVER REPORTED BY BEAVER EOC.
0813 PM 10 E LIPSCOMB TX TORNADO
02/24/00 LIPSCOMB REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0844 PM 10 E SLAPOUT OK .88 INCH HAIL
02/24/00 BEAVER BEAVER CO. S. O.
0920 PM WHEELER TX .75A INCH HAIL
02/24/00 WHEELER REPORTED BY WHEELER F.D.
0953 PM WELLINGTON TX 63 MPH TSTM GUST
02/24/00 COLLINGSWORTH REPORTED BY MEDIA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Roberts | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 60 min |
| Feb 24, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 17 min |
| Feb 24, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 47 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.